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  • Compelled by Jaymin Eve

    Compelled by Jaymin Eve

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 49 ratings
    A standalone story in the Shadow Beast Shifters world. Best read after Deserted for storyline continuity. Simone, of the Torma shifters, thought she was finished with the world of supernaturals that existed outside of Earth. She'd been there, done that, and had the near death experience to show for her time.Then a summons back to Valdor-the vampire world- is dropped in her lap...
  • Sacrifice of the Septimus, Part 2 by Stephanie Hudson

    Sacrifice of the Septimus, Part 2 by Stephanie Hudson

    Rated: 4.68 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 27 ratings
    The Sands of Time are filled with dangers and new enemies to face. But for Keira to stand tall in a world she does not know, she must first brave the differences in loving the man she calls Draven and the man she must now call her King. Join Keira as she is thrown into an ancient time and faces her biggest challenge yet… How to get a Demon King to fall for a human girl he is forbidden to love...
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  • Sacrifice of the Septimus, Part 1 by Stephanie Hudson

    Sacrifice of the Septimus, Part 1 by Stephanie Hudson

    Rated: 4.68 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 27 ratings
    ‘Together we stand and together we fall.’ Because this time, what is asked of the Chosen One, she cannot do alone. Keira finds herself enlisting the help of her friends as she goes beyond the realms of sanity and steps into a world the likes of no other. One that is filled with personal demons she has no choice but try and tame...
    Categorized as:
    demons  angels  paranormal  fantasy  vampires  urban fantasy  fae  dark
  • Afterlife Saga Books 1-4 Box Set by Stephanie Hudson

    Afterlife Saga Books 1-4 Box Set by Stephanie Hudson

    Rated: 4.68 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Afterlife Saga Box Set offers great savings and ease. Afterlife The two Kings The Tripple Goddess The Quarter Moon 60+ hours of reading, 2346+ Pages, Over 1.1Million Words! Afterlife is an opulent Gothic nightclub that belongs in a big city, not in the small town of Evergreen Falls…Just like its forbidding owner does, Dominic Draven...
  • Ashes to Ashes by Karina Halle

    Ashes to Ashes by Karina Halle

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    It’s been two months since Perry Palomino and Dex Foray’s relationship reached a new turning point, two months since Perry started a new life in Seattle, and two months since their Experiment in Terror show took on a new partner, ex-Wine Babe Rebecca Sims, and found a new level of success. But whenever there is light in their lives, the madness still has a way of coming back in...
  • Black Sheep by Shayne Silvers

    Black Sheep by Shayne Silvers

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    What good is a man when he’s lost his soul?Callie Penrose returns home to find a year has passed, and that everyone believes her long dead.Roland Haviar, once her mentor and now a Master Vampire, has become a bloodthirsty tyrant, fulfilling his vow to bathe the City of Fountains in blood until he avenges her death. And the Vatican Shepherds, once his brothers, stand in his way...
  • Death Before Dawn by Amelia Hutchins

    Death Before Dawn by Amelia Hutchins

    Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Hello Diary, Not sure when I will have a chance to write again, so I’ll have to make this fast. The search for my brother has been a long one and what I have seen along the way makes me question everything I was taught to believe about people and reinforces what my father said might happen if an apocalyptic event were to occur...
  • Fairy’s Touch by Ella Summers

    Fairy’s Touch by Ella Summers

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    The games of gods play out upon the backbones of mortals. Leda Pierce has come a long way since she left her home on the frontier of civilization one year ago to join the Legion of Angels. She is a soldier in the gods’ army, has crossed swords with demons, and shares an apartment with her angel lover in New York...
  • Elysium by Nik Knight

    Elysium by Nik Knight

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 23 ratings
    Riley and his angels have finally found their Elysium, and together, they will defend it. After enduring two months in Purgatory at the Seven’s mercy, Riley Shepard emerges alive but forever altered. To protect his angels, he must embrace the powerful darkness inside him, or risk the fate of the realms...
  • Forevermore by Dannika Dark

    Forevermore by Dannika Dark

    Rated: 4.72 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Raven Black’s wedding is on a collision course with disaster. A bonus novella in the USA Today bestselling Crossbreed series!Keystone’s planning an unforgettable wedding, but there’s only one the groom is missing. To top that off, the father of the bride is out of town, leaving Raven to wonder if destiny has screwed her over once again...
  • Cult of the Hexad by Stephanie Hudson

    Cult of the Hexad by Stephanie Hudson

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 31 ratings
    Time. Truth. Life.‘There is weakness in all when lies are told but the strength in each is what we must behold...
  • Eternal by Jaymin Eve, Everly Frost

    Eternal by Jaymin Eve, Everly Frost

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Demons don't belong in the light.I played a game of deception, and my world was torn apart.Now my pack, my family, and the ruthless demon who has claimed my heart could pay with their lives.To save them, I must walk a treacherous path between hope and destruction—a path that leads me out of the shadows and into the light.Where betrayal waits.With every move I make, my enemies close in...
  • Psychic's Spell by Ella Summers

    Psychic's Spell by Ella Summers

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    In the immortal war between gods and demons, one woman’s past holds the key to humanity’s future. One year after joining the Legion of Angels in New York City, Leda Pierce returns home to visit her family in Purgatory, a rough and rugged frontier town that borders the plains of monsters. Leda’s family reunion is cut short, however, when her little sisters are captured by supernatural mercenaries...
  • Called by Vanessa Nelson

    Called by Vanessa Nelson

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    In a city full of rising tension, with people going missing or turning up dead, can Max resist the call to help?When Max tries to intervene to prevent an assault and it goes horribly wrong, she wants nothing more than to keep her head down and get on with her job. She does not want to answer calls for help, not even from Bryce, the Order warrior who seems willing to give her a second chance...
  • A Ballad of Phantoms and Hope by K.M. Moronova

    A Ballad of Phantoms and Hope by K.M. Moronova

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 27 ratings
    This is the Spin-off to The Fabric of Our Souls; it must be read first to follow the characters in this story. "Death is not the end of us." Follow the emotional and heartwarming story of two mentally unwell ghosts who've lost their way. Lanston. It's been five years since I died and I'm still here. Still haunting this world...
    Categorized as:
    angels  demons  insta-love  paranormal  fantasy  abuse  magic  dark
  • Knights of Past by Stephanie Hudson

    Knights of Past by Stephanie Hudson

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 14 ratings
    The dust of Battle has settled over the Land.War cries of victory are Echoed throughout Hell.And now I can get back to my life of Lego and Star Trek,With one big difference,I now have a King to share it with.But it seems as if Fate had a different idea for me,And any plans for peace are shattered with the strength of my dreams,Nightmares of one last foe I must face...
  • Hunted by Vanessa Nelson

    Hunted by Vanessa Nelson

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Unsolved murders, supernatural creatures and civil unrest. Just another day.Problems keep piling up around Max. No sooner has she dealt with one set of supernatural creatures, than she's called to the city's mortuary to an unusual death. The city's most senior spiritual leader is also trying to get hold of her. On top of that, Bryce cancelled their date and hasn't been seen for days...
  • Shifter's Shadow by Ella Summers

    Shifter's Shadow by Ella Summers

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Next to the powers of heaven and hell, we are nothing. “So this was just one gigantic, cosmic war between light and dark magic. And we were only a small part of it, a tiny dot in the gods’ empire. It was no wonder that they saw us as insignificant...
  • And With Madness Comes the Light by Karina Halle

    And With Madness Comes the Light by Karina Halle

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    The Man. The Mystery. The Madness. Dex Foray has never been anyone’s fool – until he missed his chance for happiness with Perry Palomino. Broken and alone, Dex has no choice but to rise from the ashes Perry left behind and find his own path to redemption. But nothing in Dex’s life has ever come easily, especially when there’s a dark madness waiting in the wings...
  • One Second by Dannika Dark

    One Second by Dannika Dark

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 32 ratings
    Love. Family. Brotherhood. Lexi has faced personal struggles, but nothing has prepared her for the most perilous battle of her life. Shifters are on the brink of war as Northerners target Colorado in an attempt to infiltrate the borders. Texas winds up on the hit list, and the Weston pack prepares to fight for their land… and for their lives...
  • Siren's Song by Ella Summers

    Siren's Song by Ella Summers

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    When gods and demons clash, mortals bleed.Leda Pierce’s latest mission brings her back to her hometown at the edge of the Frontier. But things have taken a turn for the worse in the six months since she left home to join the Legion of Angels in New York City...
  • Ascension by Zoe Parker

    Ascension by Zoe Parker

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Ever get a job that sucks? My name is Iza Black and my life IS the sucky job. I mean yeah, there are perks. Live-in maid service, free food and I get this purple, sparkly aura thing. But there are way more bad parts. So many people, so much pain. Sleep has divorced me completely and I'm living their nightmares now too...
  • Happy Ever Afterlife, Part 1 by Stephanie Hudson

    Happy Ever Afterlife, Part 1 by Stephanie Hudson

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 26 ratings
    Warning this is a two-part book with the second part coming out the end of April 2018. This is book 11 in the Afterlife saga. The end of days might be over for our newlyweds, but the dark nights are closing in and what lies waiting in the shadows is what even nightmares are afraid of...
  • Angel's Flight by Ella Summers

    Angel's Flight by Ella Summers

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    The old saying is true. Knowledge really is power, especially when angels and gods play the game. The original Immortals, masters of magic, once reigned over every world in the known universe—until they suddenly vanished. The gods and demons have been fighting over the remains of their fractured empire ever since...
  • Knight Awakened by B.M. Clemton

    Knight Awakened by B.M. Clemton

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 41 ratings
    Coming to Black Veil University irreversibly changed my life.Meeting Daxton Pierce flipped it on end and made me question everything I know.My memories and my family had been ripped from me. I have been stalked, tortured, abandoned, and betrayed… but I’m not broken...
  • The HellBeast's Past by Stephanie Hudson

    The HellBeast's Past by Stephanie Hudson

    Rated: 4.72 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Escape.That’s all I needed to do.For running was my only option left. But that was the problem when running from a HellBeast King,He liked the chase .So, as I continue to navigate myself around his cruel world,I find not only my life on the line but the Fate of all of those I hold dear.Because Jared wants blood for blood.He wants, a life for a life.Only death is the last thing on his mind...
  • Walking in the Dark by Donna Augustine

    Walking in the Dark by Donna Augustine

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Some people find power in the light. Others are meant to walk in the dark. Ollie Wit left it all behind: a new home, friends who saw her as something more than a fragile shadow walker and a budding relationship with Kane. She did it all in an effort to shield Asher, who should’ve never been able to escape the Shadowlands...
  • Charged by Serenity Ackles

    Charged by Serenity Ackles

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 21 ratings
    They called me Battery, but as soon as I’m fully charged, they’re going to discover how much power I wield.My path of vengeance took a detour when I was rescued by the gargoyles of Castle Viegls. For several months I allowed myself to become settled with these men; to think I could have a life when once I didn’t...
  • Solo by Ariana Nash

    Solo by Ariana Nash

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    How far will he fall for love? Samiel has escaped. It's up to Solo to track him down and return him to the enclosures to await Mikhail and Konstantin's punishment. But Solo's only lead is the one demon no angel can trust—the one demon Solo can't resist—the incubus High Lord Luxen. Luxen has offered to help. On one condition: Solo sets him free...
  • Unbroken by Dreia Wells

    Unbroken by Dreia Wells

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 15 ratings
    I died.They thought they could break me. I remain Unbroken.Lives hang in the balance. I was told it’s up to me to set things right. And when God himself tells me to save the world, then I guess I need to pull my big girl pants up and get the job done. If I fail, we all lose, not just the battle, but our lives.I’m a part of a game I didn’t ask to play. The board is set, and war is about to erupt...
  • Came Back Haunted by Karina Halle

    Came Back Haunted by Karina Halle

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    A lot can change in three years.For Perry and Dex Foray, it’s been a step in the right direction, a step toward living a normal life. They’re happily married, they have their own media company, they’ve done what they can to leave their sordid and scary past behind them.But something has changed recently. Perry’s biological clock is ticking.Her sister, Ada, is going down the same path she once did...
  • Bound by Blood by Brenda K. Davies

    Bound by Blood by Brenda K. Davies

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Forced to deal with the aftermath of her parents’ murders, Caro isn’t expecting an ambush of Savages—or salvation to come from a man as frightening as the monsters hunting her.Determined to destroy the demons, Saber realizes his mission is over when he learns that Charles, the man who could help him, is dead...
  • Dust to Dust by Karina Halle

    Dust to Dust by Karina Halle

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    (New to this angsty, sexy, scary romance series? Start with book #1, Darkhouse, FREE on Amazon and other retailers. Warning: this series contains harsh language, violence, gore and sexual scenes of a graphic nature - reader discretion is advised) **The dramatic conclusion to the Experiment in Terror Series.** Perry Palomino and Dex Foray. On their own, they’re uniquely brilliant...
  • Hellcrossed by McKenzie Hunter

    Hellcrossed by McKenzie Hunter

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    My rules for survival: Never trust a demon or make a deal with one. But trapped in the demon realm, I have no choice but to break both rules if I want to escape.What’s waiting for me on the other side? A bloodthirsty god who wants to kill me—did I mention it’s my mother? An unforgiving fae who doesn’t care that we’re related and wants me gone, at any cost...
  • End of Eden by S.L. Jennings

    End of Eden by S.L. Jennings

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 25 ratings
    I thought I knew what Hell was like. I thought I had been living it all these years on Earth—abandoned, forgotten, and left with a dangerous secret that not only made me the Se7en’s #1 target but also turned me into a deadly weapon, a threat to every human in my path. I was wrong...
  • Envy by J.R. Ward

    Envy by J.R. Ward

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 50 ratings
    A man and a woman tread the lines of danger, desire, and deliverance in the new novel of the Fallen Angels from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Black Dagger Brotherhood series. As the son of a serial killer, homicide detective Thomas "Veck" DelVecchio, Jr., grew up in the shadow of evil...
  • Dark Whisper by Christine Feehan

    Dark Whisper by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 28 ratings
    Embrace the seductive call of the latest novel in Christine Feehan’s #1 New York Times bestselling Carpathian series.   Vasilisa Sidkorolyavolkva is a Lycan of royal blood. She knows what is expected of her, but all she wants is to be out from under her family’s watchful eyes. There is a fire inside her that is building. A restlessness coupled with a sense of growing dread...
  • Ventura Hellway by Debra Dunbar

    Ventura Hellway by Debra Dunbar

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Beware the devils who promise miracles.When an old flame asks Eden to help find his younger brother, she initially refuses. Searching for Anton will put her smack in the middle of the Disciples—as well as on the radar of the demon who might own her soul. But a sense of obligation (plus the promised payout), overrides her instincts for self-preservation, and Eden takes the job...
  • The Archangel by Elicia Hyder

    The Archangel by Elicia Hyder

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    The Archangel of Death is the master of taking human life. But keeping mortals alive? Not exactly Azrael's forte. For thousands of years, Azrael’s greatest enemy has been silent. Leaving him in relative peace for the first time since the great angel war...
  • Dark Seduction by Sarah Piper

    Dark Seduction by Sarah Piper

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 28 ratings
    Betraying the vampire king has deadly consequences. But what if you crave the punishment?Charlotte...Get in, get the intel, get out. And above all, don’t get noticed.As a master thief, Charley D’Amico lived by those rules... until she screwed up and fell in love with her mark—a sexy, commanding vampire king whose cravings are as dark as his secrets.She should be running for her life...
  • The Nowhere Witch by Donna Augustine

    The Nowhere Witch by Donna Augustine

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Getting back to Xest was the easy part. It’s staying here that seems to be the problem.I have three hags, also known as Xest Immigration, hot on my tail trying to deport me back to Salem. The wall I built in the Unsettled Lands is in jeopardy. Hawk, a man who was once my ally, can’t decide if he wants to lead the horde trying to drive me out or kiss me...
  • Vampire Bound: Book Two by R.A. Steffan

    Vampire Bound: Book Two by R.A. Steffan

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 11 ratings
    My son just vanished into thin air… from a commercial jet cruising at 30,000 feet. The forces that took him aren't of this world.I've barely recovered from the revelations that my boss is a vampire and magic is real. Now my child has been kidnapped by Fae who want to rule humanity, and I've acquired powers I can't control...
  • For King and Corruption by Kel Carpenter

    For King and Corruption by Kel Carpenter

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 32 ratings
    After five months of journeying across the continent with her sister, Quinn is finally ready to return to the king she swore to serve.But war has been brewing over Norcasta in her absence. While Lazarus may reign as king, there are those that would see the blood heirs in power instead...
  • Ironclad by McKenzie Hunter

    Ironclad by McKenzie Hunter

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    For most of my life, all I wanted was magic. Now I have it. Powerful magic. And I can say with certainty, the cost for it was way too high. My life is in shambles and I've been framed to look as if I betrayed the fae. If I can't fix this, I won't even have to worry about all my other problems...
  • The Devil Went Down to Glendale by Debra Dunbar

    The Devil Went Down to Glendale by Debra Dunbar

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    To settle her debt with the tax demons, Eden promised them ten jobs, but she didn’t think the demons would cash in on her vow so quickly.When she discovers her target is a man she once knew and loved—one who vanished from her and her family’s lives the day he turned eighteen—Eden is torn between her promise to the tax demons and old loyalties...
  • Demon Gate Series Volume 3: Chance, Havoc and Mayhem by Nicholas Bella

    Demon Gate Series Volume 3: Chance, Havoc and Mayhem by Nicholas Bella

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    You'd think a guy could take a break after stopping a hell portal from opening and an assassin demon from killing innocents, but I guess there is no rest for the wicked. Wickedly awesome that is because the more I learn about my demon inhabitant, the more grateful I am that I had been chosen...
    Categorized as:
    demons  alpha male  fantasy  m-m  contemporary  military  m-m-m  dark
  • Bond of Passion by Larissa Ione

    Bond of Passion by Larissa Ione

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 9 ratings
    He was an assassin. She was his lover.And his victim.Now, years later, she’s back from the dead and looking for vengeance.Thanks to an unexpected and fortuitous disaster, Tavin’s contract with the underworld’s Assassin Guild was broken decades early. But instead of freedom, he’s suffocated by guilt and regret. In many ways, he’s more trapped than he was before...
  • The Most Wanted Witch by Donna Augustine

    The Most Wanted Witch by Donna Augustine

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    A darkness has settled over Xest, as roaming hordes of grouslies prey on the vulnerable. Witches and warlocks fear walking the streets, as lines are being drawn, and sides are taken. There’s only one way to stop the destruction coming, but tracking down an evil that doesn’t want to be found isn’t easy...
  • Blood Magic by Ella Summers

    Blood Magic by Ella Summers

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The alternate cover edition for this book can be found here.Branded as an abomination, Dragon Born mage Alex Dering has spent her whole life hiding what she is—a secret her father died to protect. Eight years after his death, Alex finally gets the chance to track down the mage responsible...
  • New Regime by Laken Cane

    New Regime by Laken Cane

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Rune and her people have been taken under the mysterious wing of the Annex, an agency that works toward Other equality.But with the new regime comes changes and some monstrous enemies the Annex seems to have brought with it.The crew finds themselves up against a group called the Shop, whose leader cares only about his lab and the monsters he creates there...
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